This week has been incredible!! I don’t even know where to start!!! Some highlights include:
– A United Nations global climate conference happening in Katowice the next 2 weeks!! Over 55,000 people representing 200 countries are coming to Katowice for this conference, so we’ve had the opportunity to meet amazing people from all over the world!!! 🙂
– A world-wide service day on December 1st called Light the World. Our goal for the day was to share the light of Christ through service!!! In downtown Katowice, we set up tables outside and worked with other volunteers to make fleece tie blankets to donate to a foundation that helps needy families!! It was awesome to see people coming together to do service for people they didn’t even know!! That’s the true spirit of Christmas!!
My favorite scripture this week is 1 Nephi 7:12!!!
“Yea, and how is it that ye have forgotten that the Lord is able to do all things according to his will, for the children of men, if it so be that they exercise faith in him? Wherefore, let us be faithful to him.”
One of our purposes as missionaries is to find people to teach. A common method we use is street contacting, but finding people can also come in unexpected ways. We have faith that the Lord will direct us to people ready to hear our message. As Sister Harmon and I were preparing for the service-day Light the World activity, we visited several fabric stores looking for fleece we could use to make the blankets. We walked into an Alta Moda, which turned out to be a high-end Italian fashion store with luxurious fabric used to make custom clothes. There, we found cashmere (at $150 per meter!), Versace silk (also expensive), and other very nice fabric. Obviously too much for our tiny budget! But in the process of searching for fleece, we met the store owner Viola and had a nice conversation with her. She was very kind to us and treated us to some herbal tea and chocolate wafers and talked with us about the purpose of life. She said her son might be interested in helping us teach our twice weekly English class so we left the store having met a nice family with an invitation to meet again.
Faith is the first principle of the gospel, and it is ESSENTIAL. Even when it’s hard, if we put our trust in the Lord, we can see miracles happen!! I am a firm believer that there are no such things as coincidences—the Lord has a plan for EVERY SINGLE one of us, and He has great things in store for us!
I love you all!!! Hope this week is the best!!!
Kocham was!!!
Siostra Baldwin
Here’s my address for letters or packages to be sent!! 🙂
Kościół Jezusa Chrystusa świętych w Dniach Ostatnich
ul. Wiernicza 135
02-952 Warszawa Poland
1st Picture: Siostra Harmon and I with Sandra our Relief Society President
2nd Picture: Ola!!! We love her!
3rd Picture: BEST churros EVER
A Desert Sojourn by Elder J. Sandor Baldwin 